. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . oud noise when heated. The fire was covered withearth, and a little maize laid around it. The asses quicklyassembled with their young, in order to feed upon the maize ;but while they were thus employed, the stone burst, and scaredaway the old ones by the explosion, while the young ones, unableto fly, were carried off by the hunters. Serpents were taken evenby the hands, seizing them intrepidly by the neck with one hand,and sewing up their mouths with the other. This method is stillpractised. They showed the greatest dexterity in tracing thesteps of wild beas
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . oud noise when heated. The fire was covered withearth, and a little maize laid around it. The asses quicklyassembled with their young, in order to feed upon the maize ;but while they were thus employed, the stone burst, and scaredaway the old ones by the explosion, while the young ones, unableto fly, were carried off by the hunters. Serpents were taken evenby the hands, seizing them intrepidly by the neck with one hand,and sewing up their mouths with the other. This method is stillpractised. They showed the greatest dexterity in tracing thesteps of wild beasts, even when an European could not havediscerned the smallest print of their feet. The Indian method,however, was by observing sometimes the herbs or leaves brokendown by their feet; sometimes the drops of blood which fell fromthem when wounded. Some of the American Indians show s^ilJgreater dexterity in discovering the tracks of their ?>*»nies, which« an European would be altogether imperceptive HUNTING IN THE EAST INDIES IT. HYDER ALL CHAPTER ni. miNTINQ IN THE EAST INDIES. JAUNTING was a favorite diver-sion of the bloody conqueror,Jenghiz Khan, if indeed theword diversion can be appliedto a monster whose mind wasset upon the destruction of hisown species, and who only en-deavored to make the murderof brutes subservient to that ofmen, by keeping his soldiers in a kind of warfare with the beastswhen they had no human enemies to contend with. His expe-ditions were conducted on a plan similar to that of the Mexican*already mentioned; and were no doubt attended with stiU greatei
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